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Blind Trust (Second Chances Series #3)
Terri Blackstock Manufacturer: Zondervan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 031020710X |
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An unexplained eight-month disappearance of Sherry Cranston’s fiancé leads to murder and a flight for their lives.Customer Reviews:
Another great book in the series........2006-03-16
Riveting.......2002-08-24
Blind Trust.......2002-01-24
Wow, wow and WOW!.......1998-11-06
Blind Trust was excellent!.......1998-10-26
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When God is Silent: Choosing to Trust in Life's Trials
Charles R. Swindoll Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1404101470 |
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This positive book of encouragement and hope is compiled from text in the newly released Job by best-selling author Charles Swindoll. His practical application of the Bible to everyday living makes God's truths a reality to people experiencing loss, uncertainty, and doubt. This book will be directed at a broad audience of both genders.
The object is to create a book that will provide encouragement, comfort and direction for the matrix of modern life. Based on guidelines gleaned from the life of Job, the book will focus on:
a) Seven things Job teaches us about ourselves
b) Seven things Job teaches us about God
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Encouraging?.......2007-06-12
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Can God Be Trusted in Trials (Tony Evans Speaks Out Booklet Series)
Tony Evans Manufacturer: Moody Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0802443796 |
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Trust on Trial: How the Microsoft Case Is Reframing the Rules of Competition
Richard B. McKenzie Manufacturer: Basic Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0738204811 Release Date: 2001-04-10 |
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Is Microsoft truly a classic monopoly, whose aggressive pursuit of markets for Internet browsers and operating systems is harmful to consumers and worthy of government intervention? Or has it actually been a victim of aggressive rivals (led by Sun, Novell, Oracle, and IBM) who called in high-level favors to keep Bill Gates & Company out of the lucrative market for network servers? Richard McKenzie, a noted economist with the University of California at Irvine and the author of more than 20 books, is convinced of the latter. He advances a formidable argument on that behalf in Trust on Trial, which maintains "the Microsoft case has shown--and not for the first time--how politics can taint the antitrust enforcement process." Starting with copies of major U.S. antitrust laws, McKenzie shows how cases such as this eventually may affect consumers in both the short and long term. With some people unconditionally opposed to anything out of Redmond, of course, his thesis won't convince everyone the government proceedings are a sham. But even many of Microsoft's detractors should concede that he makes a compelling point, particularly with his overriding contention that the process is usually political. "More than Microsoft is now on trial: trust in antitrust enforcement is on trial," he says. --Howard RothmanBook Description
An incisive argument proving that current rules of business competition are rendered obsolete by the dynamics of information-age companies.Trust on Trial, a hard-hitting examination of competition in the modern marketplace, tackles the monopoly issue head-on. Through the lens of the Microsoft case, the first large-scale antitrust proceedings of the digital age, it challenges the efficacy of modern antitrust enforcement. While testing the appropriateness of new economic assumptions-from network effects to lock-ins-it forces us to ask whether nineteenth-century antitrust law, combined with twentieth-century enforcement norms, is applicable to the twenty-first-century problems of business organizations.
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Fascinating View of Microsoft Propaganda.......2002-02-10
Considering all legal disputes in regards to Microsoft's guilt are a moot point, the nature of this works is to try the legal system to deflect attention from Microsoft's anticompetitive behavior. These circumstances lead one to wonder what the class status of a lawbreaker is such that it can argue that it is in fact the law that is incorrect, not the behavior.
This title is a fascinating lobbying piece and a valid historical reference of Microsoft Propaganda in the Antitrust Years.
obviously biased analysis.......2001-06-27
Richard McKenzie: Trust on Trial.......2001-03-08
Mc Kenzie proved an excellent guide. My assessment is that the government totally failed in establishing the critical premises that Microsoft had a monopoly and predatory practices were a plausible strategy. The government's case on these points barely existed, and its lead expert contracticed himself and his prior writings. In contrast, Microsoft's expert economist present a coherent argument about why Microsoft should not be considered a monopolist and why the charges of predation were invalid. The government sought to hide this deficiency by concentrating on the tertiary point that Microsoft was aggressive. The government's experts and the judge got so steamed up about the appearances that they forgot the fundamental economic point the aggression without monopoly is useless.
The judge showed no understanding of the economcs and was not particularly astute about what any experience computer user knows. For example, he swallowed the government nonsense about the difficulties of downloading. (If it were so difficult, this site would not be as good as it is. )
McKenzie's careful, economically sound review of the case gives a perspective sadly lacking in the journalistic accounts that I have seen (including the press and magazine articles that were the basis for two of the three available journalistic accounts).
McKenzie, in particular, concentrates on the germane issue of why Microsoft should not be considered a monopolist out to overcharge consumers. He shows that the case really is one of rivals, unable to compete in the marketplace, running to Washington for aid. The book is a readable introduction to these critical economic points. It tells how the case developed and what the underlying economics are. People wanting a treatment of what really matters in the case should skip the journalists and try McKenzie. He is evidence that technical problems that journalists fear to treat can be made understandable.
The Government's case is baseless and destructive.......2000-07-30
The Government's case is certain to fail, and will only serve to help elect George Bush, because of its devastating impact on the world's single most important company, and the American stock market. With friends like Joel Klein, Al Gore doesn't need any enemies.
David W. Lee Edmond, Oklahoma
good ideas, not enough followup.......2000-07-12
An example: McKenzie mentions Jacksons "application barrier to entry", but doesn't bring up the obvious reasons why that particular argument falls flat on its face. Applications are not magic beans that can detect the underlying OS and only run on approved ones. They are just data that you feed to an OS, like you feed "data files" to applications. So it is entirely plausible to create an application which takes other applications as data. A straightforward extension of this idea is creating a program on, say, Macintosh that can execute Windows programs -- and in fact such programs already exist. This renders the "application barrier" nonexistent, and the entire monopoly charge right with it. But McKenzie missed this entire line of argument.
And, of course, there is Java, which is essentially the same idea. The Judge seems aware of Java's "platform independence capability" but he is too technically ignorant to see that this undermines his entire applications barrier premise. Sadly, McKenzie is, too.
Still a book worth reading, though.
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Antitrust Economics on Trial
Walter Adams , and James W. Brock Manufacturer: Princeton University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0691042918 |
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Is it the central purpose of American antitrust policy to encourage decentralization of economic power? Or is it to promote "consumer welfare"? Is there a painful trade-off between market dominance and economic "efficiency"? What is the proper role of government in this area? In recent years the public policy debate on these core questions has been marked by a cacophony of divergent opinions--theorists against empiricists, apostles of the "new learning" against defenders of the traditional structure-conduct-performance paradigm, "laissez-faire" advocates against "interventionists." Utilizing a distinctively innovative format, Walter Adams and James Brock examine these issues in the context of a courtroom dialogue among a proponent of the new learning (Chicago School), a prosecuting attorney, and a U.S. district judge. In contrast to bloodless "scientific" treatises or ideologically inspired polemical tracts, this book lays bare the central arguments in the debate about free-market economics and the latent assumptions and disguised terminology on which those arguments are based. The dialogue is both gripping and entertaining--designed by the authors to be reminiscent at times of the Theater of the Absurd.Customer Reviews:
Strawmen abound.......2006-08-01
Much better than expected.......2000-06-29
Interesting, open-ended.......1998-09-09
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Congress scrutinizes charity disparity.(victims of World Trade Center/Pentagon terrorist attacks): An article from: Trial
Kristin Loiacono Manufacturer: Association of Trial Lawyers of America ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008ER4DY Release Date: 2005-07-29 |
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This digital document is an article from Trial, published by Association of Trial Lawyers of America on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 858 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Doctors, patients don't trust clinical trials; recruitment being hampered.(More Education, Support Needed): An article from: Internal Medicine News
Jennifer Silverman Manufacturer: International Medical News Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008278RS Release Date: 2005-07-31 |
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This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by International Medical News Group on February 15, 2004. The length of the article is 759 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Don't trust the middleman: pharmacy benefits managers can exploit their position at the center of a complex drug-delivery system to rip off consumers.: An article from: Trial
Steve W. Berman , and Thomas Sobol Manufacturer: Association of Trial Lawyers of America ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000ALQ00I Release Date: 2006-07-14 |
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This digital document is an article from Trial, published by Association of Trial Lawyers of America on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2305 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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John Marsden's Will: The Hornby Castle Dispute, 1780-1840
Emmeline Garnett Manufacturer: Hambledon & London ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1852851589 |
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John Marsden's Will is the story of an extraordinary legal case. John Marsden himself was a mentally retarded Lancashire gentleman, looked after by his aunt. A servant, George Wright, became the aunt's lover and steward of Marsden's estate, continuing in office even after the aunt's death. When the unmarried Marsden finally died, his will effectively left Hornby Castle to the steward.The will was then contested by the heir at law, Admiral Sandford Tatham, basing his claim on the incapacity of his cousin to understand and therefore endorse a complex will. Because John Marsden's mental state was at the heart of the case, depositions were taken by sides from all who had known him. This evidence allow us not only to follow the case but also to see the personalities and emotions of the men and women involved. In particular, it enables us to see Marsden himself in remarkable detail, from his fruitless attempts to learn his tables to his death from a stroke while in an earth closet. It is very rare for a handicapped person's life in any period before the twentieth century to be traceable in this way.Tatham faced the problem that English courts were loath to overturn a will. The admiral suffered numerous set-backs in his attempt to oust Wright, as the action was fought out in a variety of courts followed by appeals, delay, manoeuvre and intrigue. The prolonged struggle and its outcome was followed by an enthralled public throughout the country.
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Managed Care On Trial: RECAPTURING TRUST, INTEGRITY, AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN HEALTHCARE (Hfma Healthcare Financial Management Series)
DENNIS ROBBINS Manufacturer: MCGRAW-HILL HEALTH CARE EDUCATION GROUP ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0070530998 |
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Although managed care affects over 100 million Americans and continues to extend its reach across this country, its successes are often overshadowed by a deterioration of consumer confidence, as evidenced by the literally thousands of legislative and regulatory initiatives aimed at taming managed care. Managed Care on Trial explores the ethical and legal issues that arise from managed care and offers a prescription for the eroding confidence in the system by resorting trust, integrity and accountability. Managed Care on Trial seeks to arm the physician and other healthcare providers with knowledge that will better enable them to bridge the gap between fscal mandates and clinical standards, and to negotiate with payors as active partners rather than passive recipients in dealing with the challenges of marketplace demands. It is also oriented as a guide for consumers seeking better ways of addressing and solving the problems posed by the rapid transformation of the healthcare system. Included in the book are reviews of some of the most dramatic legal cases involving managed care.Customer Reviews:
Rambling, Poorly written........1999-04-10
Captivating, Empowering, Pulls no punches!.......1998-07-06
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